CONNECTIONS • Celebration of New Leadership, Sunday, January 6, during worship. • Made in God’s Image, Adult Sunday School class begins Sunday, January 6, 11:45am, Errol Stephenson Hall. • SPRC Committee meets Sunday, January 6, 12:45pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Trustees meet Tuesday, January 8, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Education Committee meets Sunday, January 13, 12:45pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Administrative Council meets Monday, January 14, 7:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Outreach Committee meets Sunday, January 20, 12:45pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • All-Church Potluck, Sunday, January 27, 11:30am, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Mardi Gras Sunday, worship, clean-up, and pancake feast, Sunday, February 3, 10am-1:30pm, all over the church.
THE LARGER CHURCH • Catholic tradition worship service, Second Saturdays, 5pm, Sanctuary, UPUMC. • Reconciling United Methodists meet Saturday, January 12, 10am, Eugene First UMC. • Nuts and Bolts: Metro District Training for Leaders and Members of Local Church Administrative Committees, 9am-Noon, Saturday, January 19, Portland First UMC.
THE COMMUNITY • Game Days, First and Third Sundays, 2-5pm, University Park Coffee Shop. • Portsmouth Neighborhood Association Board meets Tuesday, January 22, 7pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR • Ash Wednesday Service, Wednesday, February 6, 7pm, Sanctuary. • Reaching Out in Love, 9am-3pm, Saturday, February 23, Portland First UMC. • General Conference of the United Methodist Church meets April 23-May 2, 2008 in Fort Worth, TX. • Western Jurisdiction Conference of the United Methodist Church meets July 16-19, 2008 in Portland, OR.
WEEKLY AT UPUMC • Choir practices Sundays at 9:30am, Tuesdays at 6:30pm, Sanctuary. • Alcoholics Anonymous, Narthex, Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays at 8pm, weekly. • Overeaters Anonymous, Wednesdays at 7pm. • Morrison Center for Children and Families, Thursdays, 5-8:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. STAYING IN TOUCH Edna Riddle, Sunrise Adult Care Center, 11945 SW Butner Rd., Portland OR 97225; 503-841-1295.
Harriet Bonhorst, 870 4th Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95818-3302; phone: 1-916-446-4863.
Erica Martinez, 182 E Nevada St. Ashland, OR 97520. Cell phone: 1-503-791-3680.
Jeanne Pulliam, 8603 SE Causey Ave, Apt 202; Happy Valley, OR 97086-2604, Telephone 503-594-2539.
Aleena Sologar, 775 Cascade St. #1316, Oregon City, OR 97045, her son Jonathan’s home. Phone, 503-387-3813.
PLEASE DON’T GO HUNGRY. WE HAVE FOOD IN OUR PANTRY, LOCATED IN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO ERROL STEPHENSON HALL. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.
MADE IN GOD’S IMAGE At University Park we not only respect but welcome diversity in race, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical and mental ability, economic status and profession. We believe all people are equal before God and entitled to God’s grace and abundance.—We proclaim those words on our bulletin each Sunday, but do we really know what the words “gender identity” mean? Stephen Hicks has made a gift to UPUMC of copies of a wonderful short book, Made in God’s Image, which explores the experiences of people with a variety of gender identities. We will use the books for our January adult Sunday School class, which Jeanne will teach.
WHERE IN THE WORLD? January 6, 2008. Do you live in Vernonia? Astoria? Seaside? Tillamook? Warrenton? Nehalem Bay? Clatskanie? Rainier? Is that your steeple laying in the street in Bay City? Camped at Camp Magruder? Did you have a tree come through your roof in December? Crush your car? Did mud fill your home? If you answered yes to any one of those questions, then you can also answer yes to this question as well: Isn’t it amazing how people from around the state and around the nation offered their time and their resources to help clean up and rebuild? Well, one more question. Did you know that you are a part of the effort as well, and that you join in that effort with United Methodists throughout the world? UMCOR, United Methodist Committee On Relief, is our United Methodist crisis response agency. While some relief agencies were still trying to figure out if and how their response would take form, UMCOR was already on the scene with an emergency grant and help. But thus has it always been! UMCOR is often the first international agency on site with assistance. Better yet, 100% of all money given to UMCOR goes directly to crisis relief. You give a dollar to flood relief and a dollar gets there! How? Your support of World Service covers the overhead and administrative expenses of UMCOR, and allows that agency to do what it does best: quietly and quickly respond to crisis. Were you on the North Oregon Coast during the big storm? Everyone say yes on the count of three…1…2…3! Because of UMCOR you were there! And will be the next time a crisis happens anywhere in the world. Now where did we put that chainsaw???—Rev. Jim Monroe
MAGRUDER STORM RECOVERY UPDATE The most hazardous trees have been removed, so the camp is now open to all volunteers who wish to help with the clean-up. This information is accurate as of Dec. 31, 2007. • Volunteers are needed anytime in January, and especially during the week and weekends of Jan. 11-21. Contact Al Trachsel, conference disaster relief coordinator at
or 503-873-6517 (church) or 971-218-0028 (cell) to schedule a date to volunteer. • Go to http://gocamping.org/pdfs/Disasterreliefeffortsplanned.pdf for list of work to be done and how you can help. • The camp received a much-appreciated $6,200 grant from UMCOR for humanitarian assistance for local employees affected by the storm. • The Oregon-Idaho Conference Disaster Fund paid for a dozen hard hats, orange vests, safety goggles, and other safety equipment, the better to keep us all safe when helping with storm recovery at Magruder. • PUD and electricians are working with the camp staff to get some electric lines underground. • Magruder will be open for guests Jan. 25. HOT CHOCOLATE A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives.
Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.
When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: “Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
“Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, we choose the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate.”
POSITION PERSON ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL ADMIN. COUNCIL CHAIR SCOTT JENSEN AD COUN. VICE CHAIR STEPHEN HICKS RECORDING SECRETARY LEANNA DEEDS FINANCE CHAIR JEFF GERRITSEN FINANCE SECRETARY DOTTI SWENSON LAY LEADER DOTTI SWENSON LAY MEMBER, A.C. DAVID WHITE ALT. LAY MEMBER, A.C. DOTTI SWENSON MEMBERSHIP CHAIR BEV READ MEMORIALS CHAIR BEV READ STAFF-PARISH REL. CHAIR CAROLYN HAMMETT TRUSTEES CHAIR to be elected UMW CHAIR BEV READ TREASURER KAREN RIPKA EDUCATION CHAIR DAVID WHITE WORSHIP CHAIR to be filled OUTREACH CHAIR BETTY CRUSON RECONCILING MIN. LIAISON DICK BURDON MDCES REPRESENTATIVE JO ANN PIEHL AT LARGE JUDY GRIFFEN FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR JEFF GERRITSEN FINANCIAL SECRETARY DOTTI SWENSON TREASURER KAREN RIPKA AD COUNCIL CHAIR SCOTT JENSEN LAY LEADER DOTTI SWENSON LAY MEMB OF A. C. DAVID WHITE MEMORIALS CHAIR BEV READ TRUSTEE REP. MEMBERS AT LARGE MDCES REPRESENTATIVE JO ANN PIEHL TRUSTEES CHAIR 2008 CLASS BILL THOMASSON JERRY CULVER PHIL HERBACH 2009 CLASS BERNICE MCNEEL TOM MCNEEL 2010 CLASS LISA HORNE DANA BRANDT DICK BURDON SPRC CHAIR CAROLYN HAMMETT 2008 CLASS DICK BURDON SALLY CULVER 2009 CLASS CAROLYN HAMMETT BEV READ 2010 CLASS TRENA KLOHE STEPHEN HICKS LAY LEADER DOTTI SWENSON LAY MEMB OF A. C. DAVID WHITE NOMINATING COMMITTEE 2008 CLASS PHIL HERBACH BEV HEGINBOTHAM SCOTT JENSEN 2009 CLASS JUDY GRIFFEN 2010 CLASS DAVID WHITE STEPHEN HICKS LAY LEADER DOTTI SWENSON PASTORS JEANNE KNEPPER MARCIA HAUER EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIR DAVID WHITE MEMBERS BARBARA HERBACH JENNIFER HERBACH WORSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIR to be filled MEMBERS STEPHEN HICKS STEPHANIE THOMPSON JUDY GRIFFEN OUTREACH COMMITTEE CHAIR BETTY CRUSON MEMBERS LEANNA DEEDS LINDA GERRITSEN BEV READ BEV HEGINBOTHAM PAM ALLEE OTHER ROLES CREATION VACATION MARCIA HAUER LUNCH BUNCH BEV READ PRAYER CHAIN BERNICE MCNEEL COMMUNION STEWARD BERNICE MCNEEL CAMPING COORDINATOR JUDY GRIFFEN OFFERING COUNTERS BEV READ BERNICE MCNEEL
University Park United Methodist Church (UPUMC) is located at 4775 N Lombard, Portland Oregon 97203. UPUMC is small, diverse, growing, laughing, committed, caring, serious, warm and REAL! We are a community that encourages each other as we grow in faith, in knowledge, in service, and in love of self, God and neighbor. At University Park we not only respect but welcome diversity in race, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical and mental ability, economic status and profession. We believe all people are equal before God and entitled to Gods grace and abundance. Pastors: Rev. Dr. Jeanne Knepper & Rev. Marcia Hauer http://www.upumc.net
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